0 present participle of overcook --
1 to cook food for longer than necessary, reducing its quality as a result: --
Overcooking will render the buds gray and soft, and they then develop a strong flavour and odour that some dislike.
He also suggests avoiding beef well done: the meat is more likely to be from less-than-best grade as the substandard flavor would be masked in overcooking.
Thermostatically controlled methods, such as sous-vide, can also prevent overcooking by bringing the meat to the exact degree of doneness desired, and holding it at that temperature indefinitely.
This secondary browning is done briefly, and sometimes at higher heat than normally used, so as to affect only the surface of the food and to avoid overcooking the interior.
It should be interpreted as cooking them just until they lose their raw taste, as a way to avoid overcooking them.
In a hotpot, it is added at the last moment to the pot to avoid overcooking.
The only consequence of overcooking tends to be a thicker crust.
Because of this, food cooked in a cast-iron wok must be promptly removed from the wok as soon as it is done to prevent overcooking.
